Rohingya receive the covid-19 vaccine

1Romiza Begum breastfeeds her son on August 11, 2021 in the Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Begum now shares a temporary shelter with two other families after heavy rains, landslides and floods affected their settlement and destroyed their shelter in early August.

In this context, the country has started the first immunization campaign among the inhabitants of the camp, one of the most populated in the world.

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2A woman frowns when she receives a shot from the covid-19 vaccine.

About 48,000 Rohingya have been vaccinated between August 11 and 17 with the help of UN agencies.

On the first day, almost 4,000 doses were inoculated.

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3A crowd, most without masks, walk through an open-air market in Cox's Bazar on August 11.

The first case of the new coronavirus among this refugee population was registered on March 24, 2020, and since then 8,118 cases have been identified among the local and refugee population.

Of the latter, 670 have been infected, according to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) in May 2021. Allison Joyce Getty Images

4A health worker goes door to door in the refugee camp to vaccinate the tenants of each shack. Bangladesh exceeded one million positives for covid-19 last July and has vaccinated just 3% of its population. Rohingya refugees have been living in Cox's Bazar for four years, since they fled their homeland, Myanmar, due to ethnic violence. Currently, Bangladesh has 34 refugee camps where more than 900,000 people live. Allison Joyce Getty Images

5Two women sick with covid-19 rest in a hospital in Cox's bazaar on August 12, 2021. Refugees have little access to health care, and due to the density of the camp population, they cannot maintain the methods of Covid-19 prevention such as social distancing, regular hand washing, and isolation. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has established a 60-bed isolation and treatment center, the largest of its kind in Cox's Bazar, where patients with severe acute respiratory needs can be treated. Allison Joyce Getty Images

6Kabir Ahmed, who suffers from jaundice, is brought home after seeing a doctor due to lack of funds and transportation, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. WHO has led the preparation of the operational plan, the training of doctors, vaccinators and other health personnel to immunize the refugees. The strategy has been to reuse field staff working on other programs such as tuberculosis, in addition to deploying doctors specializing in preventable diseases and the entire Cox's Bazar medical emergency team. Allison Joyce Getty Images

7Two toilets tour the settlements, amid the rain, a climatic phenomenon that has shown no mercy in recent weeks. The vaccination campaign follows devastating monsoon rains that hit Cox's Bazar district in recent weeks, causing flash floods and landslides that killed eight Rohingya refugees and 15 Bangladeshis from host communities. Allison Joyce Getty Images

8 Almost 25,000 refugees have been displaced due to landslides, floods, winds and storms.

Thousands of facilities have been damaged, including primary care clinics, distribution points and latrines.

Access has also been hampered due to damage to roads, paths and bridges.

In the picture, a Rohingya woman is vaccinated.

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9 A woman cradles her baby, suspected of having covid-19, in a health center in Cox's bazar.

According to the WHO, 40,000 PCR tests have been carried out among the Rohingya refugee population.

151 people have been placed in isolation since the start of the pandemic and 11 have died. Allison Joyce Getty Images

10Some children sleep in their shelter in Cox's Bazar.

Covid-19 continues to alter the lives of more than 460,000 Rohingya minors, according to Unicef.

The educational facilities in the camps have been closed since March, as in the rest of the country, and some 315,000 young students are out of school.

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11A man registers at a vaccination point to receive his dose while a technician next to him prepares the syringe to inoculate him.

Rohingya refugees eligible for vaccination in the first cohort include some 48,000 people over the age of 55.

The campaign continued until August 17.

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12Two children play in their temporary shelter on August 11, 2021 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

This installation of the image is shared by three families after heavy rains, landslides and floods affected their camp and destroyed several houses two weeks ago.

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13A man receives the covid-19 vaccine on August 11 at Cox's Bazar.

"Vaccination of this highly vulnerable population is important to contain the spread of the virus and prevent the continuation of the pandemic. No one is safe until everyone is safe," said Dr. Bardan Jung Rana, WHO Representative in Bangladesh. .

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